What if my birth is TOO fast?

Some moms (especially some who have had fast births before Hypnobabies) worry that their next births might be TOO fast.

My tip is this: In your mind change it to ideal birthing time. Visualize what you want. Maybe you want a 6 hour birthing time (which is fast to many) so whenever you hear “fast and easy”, think ideal length of time and easy. :)

When I shared this on the Yahoo Group a mom shared her experience and said I could share it here!

This was my exact fear when I started the program and was almost the reason I didn’t try Hypnobabies for my recent birth. My 1st birth was 8 hours, but my second was only 4 hrs start to finish – I was only at the hospital 2 hours or less. I was very worried that I wouldn’t get to the hospital in time for my 3rd or have someone available to take care of my kids while I was birthing.

What I can tell you is that I was surprised at how much warning my body gave me this time around as opposed to my prior births. My first two pregnancies had a lot of BH, and my second birth even had a trip to L&D thinking this was the real thing. When it came time to have my second child, things went from nothing to intense very quickly. For my third birth (first Hypnobabies) I started having very manageable PW at 7AM that lasted on and off throughout the day. I could tell that this was my birthing time but my body started out nice and slow. I did not wind up going to the hospital until 11 PM when things picked up in intensity and my daughter was born at 3:45 AM. From “intense” to baby it was only 6 hours but technically I was probably laboring for 21 hours. I did visualize that I would have plenty of time to get to the hospital and all my support people would be there for both me and my kids which happened to a T.

My only regret is that in my visualization I pictured things going “nice and slow” so that I could feel good about everyone getting where they needed to be, and I think I visualized my birthing time to be too slow LOL. So I agree with PP that even though the tracks talk about a fast birth, your visualization is a very, very powerful tool. Picture your birthing time exactly the way you want it to go and let your body do the rest.